Robin Ault was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on December 23, 1941. He was the first person to win the U.S. Junior Championship three times in a row (1959, 1960, 1961). He won the 1959 US Junior Championship (in Omaha, Nebraska) on tiebreak over Gilbert Ramirez. He was invited to the 1959-60 U.S. Championship, but lost all 11 games. He won the 1961 US Junior Championship (in Dayton, Ohio) on tiebreak over Bernard Zuckerman. He died on September 16, 1994 in Newton, Massachusetts.

GrahamClayton: <benzol>IIRC Robin Ault lost all his games when he played in the 1959 US Ch. He qualified for the US Championship when he became US Junior Champion.

<benzol>,
After Ault's 0-11 performance in the 1959 US championship, I think the qualificaton rules were changed so that the US Junior Champion did not receive an automatic invitation to the US Championship.

theagenbiteofinwit: <After Ault's 0-11 performance in the 1959 US championship, I think the qualificaton rules were changed so that the US Junior Champion did not receive an automatic invitation to the US Championship.>

Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> Yes. <Leslie Hastings Ault> was Robin Ault's older brother, born in 1940. He became a USCF Master in his own right, writing "The Genesis of Power Chess" and contributing to "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess."

Less importantly, he earned a Ph. D. from Columbia, and was a professor and coordinator of the Behavioral Sciences Unit at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx.

Both Robin and Leslie played in the US Open at Cleveland, 1957, along with their father, <Leslie F. Ault>. Dad had the best score that time with 7.5 points, Leslie H. scoring 7.0 and Robin 6.0.

He was born in Elizabeth, raised in Cranford, and had lived for
more than 20 years in Newton, Mass. Dr. Ault earned a bachelor's degree
from Columbia University and a doctorate in mathematics from
Brandeis University. During his college years he won the U.S Junior
Chess, Championship three times, something no one has yet matched.
He was a professor of mathematics at Boston State College in Massachusetts from 1965 until the school was closed in 1981, and more recently was a senior software engineer with MicroLogic Inc.

He was active in the New University Conference, an organization
of university professors involved in human rights and anti-war issues.
Dr. Ault volunteered his time to the Quaker church as a draft counselor
during the Vietnam War. He also was active in Newton Action for Nuclear Disarmament in Newton, Mass., one of the first disarmament organizations in the country.

Dr. Ault was a longtime member of Mass Choice, the Massachusetts
affiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action
League. He joined Mass Choice at its founding in 1970 and worked in
nearly every volunteer capacity: grassroots organizer, volunteer coordinator, board officer, political action committee board member.
He was recognized by Mass Choice on its 20th anniversary in 1990 for his
work with the organization. It will dedicate the Robin Ault Volunteer
Award at Mass Choice's 25th-anniversary celebration in 1995.
He also was prominent in his Massachusetts city on political
campaigns for alderman, school board, and state representative.
A delegate to the Massachusetts Democratic Party convention Dr.
Ault was the secretary of his ward's Democratic Party committee and
was active in a bicycle-pedestrian task force in his city.

Surviving are his mother, Margaret Ault of Cranford; two brothers,
Leslie Ault and David Ault, both in New Jersey; three nieces and two
nephews."

jerseybob: That one-year experiment, inviting the Junior Champ into the Senior Championship, meant the exclusion of a higher-rated, more-deserving player. I believe in 1959 that might've been Curt Brasket.

parisattack: <Robin Ault> also published a translation of Tarrasch's Dreihundert Schachpartien in 1961. Two spiral-bound volumes. If he passed in 1994 @ 52, he was quite young at the time. Perhaps his father <Leslie Ault> assisted.

Around 1998 I was going to publish Eugene Salome's translation of Tarrasch side-by-side with the Ault translation. I mentioned it on an old chess NewsGroup - and did I hear from the Aults' attorney in a hurry! :)

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